Welsh gravel pit (Pleistocene of Canada)

Also known as Welshe's pit

Where: Ontario, Canada (44.9° N, 76.0° W: paleocoordinates 44.9° N, 76.0° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Late/Upper Pleistocene (0.1 - 0.0 Ma)

Environment/lithology: coastal; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: original phosphate

Primary reference: O. P. Hay. 1923. The Pleistocene of North America and its vertebrated animals from the states east of the Mississippi River and from the Canadian provinces east of longitude 95 degrees. Carnegie Institute of Washington Publication 322:1-499 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 51020: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 26.05.2005

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Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Cetacea - Balaenopteridae
"Megaptera boops" = Megaptera novaeangliae
"Megaptera boops" = Megaptera novaeangliae Brisson 1762 humpback whale